It's taken me a whole week to do it, but I am delighted to have just finished editing and uploading 31 episodes of the Comic Cuts The Panel Show Advent Calendar, where I reveal a comic panel every day from Dec 1st to Hogmanay, and the viewer or listener gets the chance to guess what it could be, then I reveal it and talk a little about the comic in question.
The episodes average four minutes long. The longest is 8 minutes the shortest around 3 minutes, I've mostly kept it tight and easily digestible. Whether anyone will watch or listen to these I don't know, but they were fun to do and I think they'll be entertaining for the punter out there.
Not that anyone's that bothered, but I've totted up some stats about the episodes. Looking at the period the comics I've chosen come from, the results look like this:
1890s - 1 comic
1920s - 2 comics
1940s - 1 comic
1950s - 4 comics
1960s - 6 comics
1970s - 6 comics
1980s - 2 comics
1990s - 3 comics
2000s - 5 comics
2010s - 1 comic
So I've inevitably chosen a few that I was familiar with from growing up with them, or because that's when influential comics came from (the 60s and 70s), and have somehow leap-frogged over the 1900s, 1910s, and 1930s, but have otherwise chosen a wide chronological spread of titles.
Nationality wise it looks like this:
British comics - 11
American comics - 8
Scottish comics - 3
American/British crossovers in some way - 3
French/ Belgian - 3
Japanese - 1
Other nationalities (no spoilers) - 2
Comic Cuts The Panel Show Advent Calendar begins on December 1st (at 4.15am), which is also when the first of our Christmas Specials - with ten guests and four comic panels to guess at - appears (at 5am). Happy seasonal comic things!
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